Morgan's TOP 5 in 2025 | Mouthing - Orla Mackay

Morgan says... Truly phenomenal. Mackey writes with humour, care and bite in this collection of multiple perspective stories all connected by place. This book will make you laugh and cry within the span of a couple of pages. Mackey plays with the idea of reliable and unreliable narrator through the individual tellings of shared stories. A stunning representation of rural Ireland and rural Irish people. Now one of my all time favourite works of fiction. 

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Welcome to Ballyrowan: a village built out of stories. Stories about the girl who got herself into trouble and disappeared to America, the brother and sister who both went mad, the priest who tried to help them and the doctor who had them committed, about your man going off with a young one half his age, the child he left behind, the neighbour who took her in, and what was said and done about it afterwards.